In the perfect world, anything can go wrong. For Jor and Fenix, living underground is a way of life, for the rest of Vel, it means they don't exist.
Abandoned by her brother, Jor has been living... More > in the tunnels with Fenix for years. Together they have stuggled to survive in a world where they're supposed to be dead. Then Jor finds the one person she thought she'd never see again. The story he tells them plunges them into the centre of the city, a place off limits to everyone but those of extreme importance. What they find there will change their lives, and the future of Vel, forever.< Less

In the perfect world, anything can go wrong. For Jor and Fenix, living underground is a way of life, for the rest of Vel, it means they don't exist.
Abandoned by her brother, Jor has been living... More > in the tunnels with Fenix for years. Together they have stuggled to survive in a world where they're supposed to be dead. Then Jor finds the one person she thought she'd never see again. The story he tells them plunges them into the centre of the city, a place off limits to everyone but those of extreme importance. What they find there will change their lives, and the future of Vel, forever.< Less

Dystopia is a collection of select works by NYC based painter Patricia Benitez that focus on dark atmospheres, monotone color palettes, and an overall sense of macabre. Pieces from the... More > "Blindness", "Romance Void", and "Flesh and Bone" series have been hand picked to give the viewer a dark and haunting experience they will never forget.< Less

In the distant future the United States has been split into two regions separated by a barren wasteland; this is the country of Dystopia. Here the individual is discouraged, freedom is an illusion,... More > food is rationed, and everything you do is tracked by a chip implanted in your arm. This is Dana Ginary’s world.
At age seventeen, people receive their career assignments chosen for them by a government body. Forced to work at the Waste Management Plant because she was declared too individualistic, Dana finds herself surrounded by death and brutality. Knowing her days are numbered, she looks for a way to leave the plant before she, too, becomes one of its causalities.
It is then she meets a man named George and soon finds herself caught up in a cat and mouse game between the resistance and the Dystopian government. Dana finds herself faced with an agonizing choice of whom she will betray and whom she will save: her friend George, her parents, or herself.< Less

Utopia/Dystopia is an artist's book produced by Simon Cardew for Idle Toil Press, published in 2013. Building on the success of his previous work, such as Vectis, it is the artist's most... More > sophisticated and intricate work in the artist's book genre to date, exploring the twin themes of Utopia and Dystopia from a literary, artistic, cultural and critical perspective.< Less

What will happen when technology allows us to upload our minds into computers?
Imagine a world created by you, your surroundings, the people that you interact with, the places that you visit, where... More > you live, the things that you like to do, the amount of time that you decide to live; free of disease, violence, disasters, anxiety, of death. Try to imagine that all you have ever wanted to do is within the realm of possibility...where you decide what, when, and how you are going to do, without constraints, fear, and, to some extent, without moral judgment. A place where you are free to do anything. Now imagine that what you have just read is possible, not hundreds of years from now, but within the next few decades.
Digital Dystopia presents and combines subjects like computer technologies, the Singularity, brain computer interfaces, hacking, cyberpunk, religion and philosophy into one coherent hypothesis related to the subject of virtual worlds and digital immortality.< Less

What will happen when technology allows us to upload our minds into computers?
Imagine a world created by you, your surroundings, the people that you interact with, the places that you visit, where... More > you live, the things that you like to do, the amount of time that you decide to live; free of disease, violence, disasters, anxiety, of death. Try to imagine that all you have ever wanted to do is within the realm of possibility...where you decide what, when, and how you are going to do, without constraints, fear, and, to some extent, without moral judgment. A place where you are free to do anything. Now imagine that what you have just read is possible, not hundreds of years from now, but within the next few decades.
Digital Dystopia presents and combines subjects like computer technologies, the Singularity, brain computer interfaces, hacking, cyberpunk, religion and philosophy into one coherent hypothesis related to the subject of virtual worlds and digital immortality.< Less

In the spring of 2013, the fourth course of four focused on utopias and dystopias, and this volume is a collection of those papers. It is organized by student, and each student has a utopian writing... More > followed by a dystopian writing. The assignment was to first write a utopia, which we described loosely as “a generally better place”, or a picture of the world with its problems fixed.
The second assignment was unique. Instead of just writing the dystopia as “something generally worse” or how it all looks when society collapses, the exercise was to take the fix from the utopia –the whole reason it was a better place, and have it be the core problem of the collapsed society in the dystopia. Again, whatever made life utopian, must corrupt or corrode and be the cause of the dystopia. Even worse, the students did not know about this until after they had written their utopias.< Less

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